ScubaPro Dive bag and Cancer Warning Concerns

[hroark2112]

Maybe they'll finally start putting warning labels on split fins:

WARNING: If you dive split fins, you're going to die!!

 

[Ryan Neely]

Maybe they'll finally start putting warning labels on split fins:

WARNING: If you dive split fins, you're going to die!!

Somebody point me to the threads about Split Fin Death. I've seen reference all over the site but don't understand the controversy.

 

[seaseadee]

It’s a running joke on the board. The gear purists say that they are a gear solution to a skills problem, so naturally that gets parodied.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

A lot of people here who have been around a while or maybe are specialists in some certain diving discipline consider split fins to be gimmicky and a product designed for the weak and feeble who can’t use regular fins.

I couldn’t care less myself.

 

[yle]

I received a ScubaPro Dive bag off of Amazon and there's a warning sticker:

"WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Di(2-ethylhexyl)phtjalate (DEHP) and Lead, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65warnings.ca.gov"

Is this normal and just an overblown concern, or should I just get a different bag?

Thanks for your advice. (I'm from Washington state and not in California btw, not like it matters).

If you get the chance to visit California, you'll understand. Everything here has that label. Seriously, everything. Even newborn babies get slapped with the "watch out!! it could cause cancer" label, right on their butt, before they even see their mother. It's a result of a well intentioned but seriously misguided lawmaking process.

Even our restaurants have that label (just saw one yesterday) in their window, to warn people that compounds used to make plastic (which could be used in packaging in the restaurant) could possibly cause cancer (although you would probably have to eat the packaging... and a lot of it.)

Seriously... manufacturers are required by Calif law to "warn" consumers if anything in their product could be associated with cancer. And many manufacturers find it easier (i.e. more cost effective) to just slap the label on everything instead of trying to figure out what needs it and what doesn't.

 

[yle]

Do you live in California? If not you're probably ok.

If you do live in California, well, you're going to die one day.

But at least they warned you in advance... as is legally required in Calif.

 

[yle]

I hear they are even slapping the Prop 65 stickers on the foreheads of new born babies.

LOL... dang, you beat me to it. I read your post after I wrote the one above.

But I figured they slapped the sticker on the baby's butt. At least there's likely a P65 sticker on that new baby's diaper.

 

[kelemvor]

LOL... dang, you beat me to it. I read your post after I wrote the one above.

But I figured they slapped the sticker on the baby's butt. At least there's likely a P65 sticker on that new baby's diaper.

There really is, except it's on the disposable plastic package the diaper came in.